International Ruhr Energy Conference (INREC)

Essen, Germany

Conference Program

Conference Program

Day 1 - Wednesday, September 9, 2020:


Time	Stream: Electricity Markets	Stream: Forecasting/Trading	Stream: Mixed
10:30	Joining the virtual conference rooms
10:45	Welcome & Introduction
11:00	Panel Discussion Prof. Dr. Christoph Schmidt (RWI), Prof. Dr. Manfred Fischedick (Wuppertal Institut), Prof. Dr. Christoph Weber (EWL) " 180 € per tonne of CO2? – the key to achieving the climate targets? "
12:00	Lunch Break
12:50	Joining the virtual conference rooms
	Session Title: Security of Supply	Session Title: Probabilistic Forecasting	Session Title: Political Hot Topics in an Energy Market Context
13:00	Speaker: Lars Nolting (RWTH Aachen) - A guideline to identify optimal levels of complexity in energy system models - insights from security of supply assessments Discussant: Marie-Louise Kloubert	Speaker: Jonathan Berrisch (University of Duisburg Essen) – Data Science Methods for Probabilistic Natural Gas Price Forecasting Discussant: Christopher Kath	Speaker: Carl-Philipp Anke, David Schönheit (TU Dresden) - Explaining recent carbon emissions reductions in the German power sector: Market developments vs. sustainable transition Discussant: Christopher Ball
13:40	Speaker: Marie-Louise Kloubert (TransnetBW) - Assessment of Generation Adequacy considering Uncertainties Discussant: Lars Nolting	Speaker: Tim Janke (TU Darmstadt) - An Empirical Evaluation of Forecast Combination Approaches for Probabilistic Electricity Price Forecasting Discussant: Jonathan Berrisch	Speaker: Christopher Ball (EWI) (FZ Jülich) - Electricity Market Relationship between the UK and its Neighbours: Distributional Effects of Brexit Discussant: Carl-Philip Anke
14:20	Virtual Coffee Break
14:40	Joining the virtual conference rooms
	Session Title: Best Paper Award Nominees	Session Title: Trading	Session Title: Financial Incentives for the Energy Transition & Local Flexibility Markets
14:50	Speaker: Clemens Marggraf (RWI) - Reducing Vehicle Cold Start Emissions through Carbon Pricing: Evidence from Germany Discussant: Jonas Zinke	Speaker: Emil Kraft (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) - Multi-Stage Stochastic Optimization of Trading Flexibility on Nested Electricity Markets: Trading Strategies for Balancing Reserve Markets Discussant: Weronika Marta Nitka	Speaker: Niklas Vespermann (TU Munich) - Access Economy for Storage in Energy Communities Discussant: Jan Priesmann
15:30	Speaker: Jonas Zinke (EWI) - One price fits all? Wind power expansion under uniform and nodal pricing in Germany. Discussant: Philipp Hauser	Speaker: Weronika Marta Nitka (Wrocław University) - Balancing RES Generation: Profitability of an Energy Trader Discussant: Tim Janke	Speaker: Jan Priesmann (RWTH Aachen) - Energy transition and social justice - Allocation of cost of feed-in tariffs Discussant: Jakob Knauf
16:10	Speaker: Philipp Hauser (TU Dresden) - The Contribution of Gas Infrastructure to Security of Gas Supply in Europe – A Stochastic Programming Approach Discussant: Clemens Marggraf	Speaker: Christopher Kath (RWE Supply&Trading GmbH) - Optimal Order Execution in Intraday Markets: Minimizing Cost in Trade Trajectories Discussant: Emil Kraft	Speaker: Jakob Knauf (University of St. Gallen) - Can’t buy me acceptance? – Public attitude and financial incentives in contested wind energy projects in Germany Discussant: Niklas Vespermann
16:50	Joining the virtual social event rooms
17:00	Virtual Social Event
18:30	End of Day 1

Day 2 - Thursday, September 10, 2020:


Time	Stream: Electricity Markets	Stream: Forecasting/Trading	Stream: Mixed
	Session Title: The future of Electricity Markets	Session Title: Neural Networks	Session Title: Modelling Conventional Power Plants
09:00	Speaker: Philipp Trotter (Oxford University) - Predicting electricity generation mixes without scenario assumptions – A machine learning approach for power plant success factors and failure rates Discussant: Moritz Wüthrich	Speaker: Andreas Wagner (ITWM) - Improving electricity price forecasting using embedding layers in neural networks Discussant: Grzegorz Marcjasz	Speaker: Robin Leisen (University of Duisburg - Essen) - Modelling of combined cycle power plants in a detailed electricity market model Discussant: Reinhard Madlener
09:40	Speaker: Moritz Wüthrich (ETH Zurich) - Data-driven forecast of long-term electricity market prices for the assessment of power purchase agreements Discussant: Philipp Trotter	Speaker: Grzegorz Marcjasz (Wrocław University) - Forecasting day-ahead electricity prices: best practices and state-of-the-art Deep Neural Networks Discussant: Andreas Wagner	Speaker: Reinhard Madlener (RWTH Aachen) - Real Options Model for the Disinvestment in Conventional Power Plants Discussant: Robin Leisen
10:20	Virtual Coffee Break
10:40	Keynote Speech 2: Dr. Juan Bernabé-Moreno - Chief Data Officer & Global Head of Analytics and AI at E.ON SE – Title: How E.ON is leveraging Data and AI to shape the energy world
11:30	GEE Best Paper Award
11:40	Joining the virtual conference rooms
	Session Title: Flexibility Markets & Congestion Management	Session Title: Electricity Prices I	Session Title: Gas Markets and Hydrogen
11:50	Speaker: Lucas Jürgens (HAW Hamburg) - Beyond the copper plate: Market-based congestion management in future Northern Germany Discussant: Manuel Eising	Speaker: Tomasz Serafin (Wrocław University) - Trading on Short-term Path Forecasts of the German Intraday Electricity Prices Discussant: Arkadiusz Jędrzejewski	Speaker: Anna Christin Meißner (Fraunhofer ISIT) - Beyond surplus electricity utilization - Analysis on smart application of electrolysers for hydrogen production and ancillary services Discussant: Matthew Schmidt
12:30	Speaker: Manuel Eising (EIFER) - Redispatch patterns of concurrent market and reserve power plant activations in Germany Discussant: Lucas Jürgens	Speaker: Arkadiusz Jędrzejewski (Wrocław University) - The importance of the long-term seasonal component in day-ahead electricity price forecasting revisited: Parameter-rich models estimated via the LASSO Discussant: Tomasz Serafin	Speaker: Matthew Schmidt (TU Dresden) - Assessing the Impact of Uncertainties on Infrastructure Developments in the European Natural Gas Market: A robust optimization approach Discussant: Anna Christin Meißner
13:10	Lunch Break
14:00	Keynote Speech 3: Prof. Yannig Goude, Université Paris-Sud / EDF – Title: Machine learning methods for electricity load forecasting: contributions and perspectives
14:50	Joining the virtual conference rooms
	Session Title: Demand Side Management	Session Title: Electricity Prices II	Session Title: Portfolio and Risk Analysis
15:00	Speaker: Johannes Kochems (TU Berlin) - Demand response potentials for Germany: potential clustering and comparison of modeling approaches Discussant: Oliver Ruhnau	Speaker: Felix Nitsch (German Aerospace Center) - Model in model: Electricity price forecasts in agent-based energy system simulations Discussant: Bartosz Uniejewski	Speaker: Barbara Glensk (RWTH Aachen) - Fuzzy Portfolio Optimization of Onshore Wind Power Plants Discussant: Michael Chow
15:40	Speaker: Oliver Ruhnau (Hertie School) - Flexible electricity demand: a lower bound for the value of renewable energy Discussant: Johannes Kochems	Speaker: Bartosz Uniejewski (Wrocław University) - PCA forecast averaging -- predicting day-ahead and intraday electricity prices Discussant: Felix Nitsch	Speaker: Michael Chow (ETH Zurich) - Modeling and analysis of the risk associated with virtual power purchase agreements from an off-taker perspective Discussant: Barbara Glensk
16:20	End of Sessions Day 2
16:30	End

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All concurrent session speakers will have approximately 40 minutes (including discussion - e. g. 30 min talk, 10 min discussion) to present their paper.